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Indignation is the default tone of voice for investigative correspondents. Both Brian Ross at ABC and Sharyl Attkisson at CBS found federal spending to feel outraged about. In each case the amount of money was minuscule in the scheme of things. So their annoyance was not in proportion to the offense. Ross traveled to the Omni Hotel in Atlanta where the Federal Aviation Administration is holding a $5m conference for 3,600 of its managers. Ross objected to the "pretty serious party animals" who celebrated Christmas "with great relish" during the conference's off hours on their $81 per diem expenses.
Attkisson's problem on Follow the Money was the rules for the $26m-a-year pension plan for 400-or-so former members of the House of Representatives. It was not until 2007 that the rules were revised to disqualify Congressmen who had left office after conviction for corruption. Accordingly, Attkisson tracked down two dozen onetime Solons whose pensions were grandfathered so that she could complain about that stable door and the felonious horses that had bolted.
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